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1973-74
NCAA WRESTLING
1973-74
East Stroudsburg State Wrestling
1973-74 Final Results & Records
▪ 1973-74 ESSC Mat Team Record
▪ (9-6)
Montclair State 29 ESSC 15,
ESSC 24 Elizabethtown 18, ESSC 19 Yale 16,
ESSC 24 F&M 15, Bloomsburg State 25 ESSC 16, Slippery Rock 33 ESSC 11,
ESSC 25 Trenton State 13, ESSC 29 Lock Haven 20, ESSC 36 Shippensburg 8,
ESSC 39 Mansfield 3, ESSC 35
Kutztown 6, ESSC 18 West Chester 17,
Wilkes College 23 ESSC 16, Millersville 22
ESSC 21, Bloomsburg 25 ESSC 18.
1973-74 East
Stroudsburg State College
NCAA (PSAC) Varsity Wrestling Team
▪ Front (L-R) Billy Cuff, Keith Lichty,
Bill Luckenbaugh, Gary Kessel, Mel Riddick.
▪ Back (L-R) Don Lehman, Bob Stetler,
Mike Stambaugh, Carl Seitz, Phil Conlin,
Fred Swanson.
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The Stroud Courier
10/73
-
1973 York YMCA
Pre-Season Cond. Tourney
•
Senior Bill Luckenbaugh and freshman Don Lehman
of
East Stroudsburg State College...
each won a title at the October 1973 York YMCA Conditioning Tourney in
York, PA.
Luckenbaugh and Lehman are
graduates of West York High School. Luckenbaugh registered
all falls, while Lehman (heavyweight) decisioned Shippensburg State
College's Frank Myers,
a 1973 PSAC Tournament runner-up at heavyweight, 3-2, in the event finals.
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
November 5, 1973
Area Matmen Win For East Stroudsburg State
At Montclair State College 11/4/73
Three of the four former West York High School grapplers,
now performing for
East Stroudsburg State College...
posted wins Sunday night as the Warriors bowed to the Montclair State College
team, 29-15.
Freshman Keith Lichty was pinned in his 126lb. test, losing in 4:58 to
Nable Gulelove, a 2-time Metro
Conference champ. Warrior captain Bill Luckenbaugh wrestled
@
158lbs. and decisioned Bob Woods,
13-2.
Sophomore Mike Stambaugh, a returning ESSC veteran, pinned
his rival, Luke Vaccaro in 3:20.
Don Lehman, a freshman Hwt., decisioned Rod Giaquinto, 3-2. East Stroudsburg State is set to compete
in the annual Coast Guard Invitational Tourney at New London, Connecticut
- Friday
and Saturday.
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The Stroud Courier
11/13/73
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ESSC 19 Yale University 16 @ Yale U.
•
Heavyweight, Don Lehman
of
East Stroudsburg State College...
and a 1973 West York High School graduate... lost to Yale's senior
heavyweight, *Tim Karpoff, 3-2,
in East Stroudsburg State College's 19-16 dual meet win over Yale
University Tuesday.
Karpoff is a returning
(1973) EIWA Champion at Heavyweight (Unlimited).
*Yale Universities Tim Karpoff, placed 4th at the 1974 NCAA Div. I
Mat Championships @ UNL.
1974 Division I Wrestling Championships
Bracket
LOOK at the
NCAA Division
I 1974 UNL. bracket w/Yale's Tim Karpoff...
HERE!
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▪
1973 Coast Guard Academy
Invitational Wrestling Tournament
New London, CT.
▪ USCG Award Presentations by
NFL HOF'er -
Otto Graham, Jr.
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
1st Place:
Bill Luckenbaugh (150lbs.) (ow) - East
Stroudsburg State.
2nd Place:
Don Lehman (Heavyweight) - East
Stroudsburg State.
4th Place:
Mike Stambaugh (177lbs.) - East
Stroudsburg State.
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The
York Daily Record
ARCHIVES
November 12, 1973
vs.
ESSC Matmen Rally to Win
East Stroudsburg State's wrestling team showed its upper weights
last night.
Winning the last three bouts, Coach Clyde "Red" Witman's Warriors
overcame a three-point deficit
to
defeat visiting Elizabethtown College, 24-18. The win evened the ESSC team
record at 1-1.
Mike Stambaugh at 177lbs.,
George Ahner at 190lbs., and freshman
Don Lehman at heavyweight
posted decisions to spark the comeback.
ESSC won six of the 10 dual bouts, two by falls.
Warrior star Bill Luckenbaugh, the team's only champion in last weekend's
Coast Guard tournament,
got one at 158lbs, and freshman Gary Kessel scored his first fall at 134lbs. Luckenbaugh's
pin
was his 30th of his career. The meet was tied 15-15 when Ahner
gained an exciting victory
at 190lbs. The ESSC
wrestler got a takedown with about 1:30 left to break a 5-5 tie with Curt
Shober.
A riding time point gave him an 8-5
victory.
Lehman preserved the victory.
The Warrior heavyweight
got a takedown in the first minute to key a 3-1 victory over E-town's
big DeHaven Robinson.
Both Lehman and Robinson also scored on escapes.
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
ESSC 24 Elizabethtown College 18
118lbs. Eric Mast
(E) pinned Billy Cuff (ES) 7:41
126lbs. Gary Heim (E) dec. Keith Lichty (ES) 6-5
134lbs. Gary Kessel (ES) pinned Bruce Sensenig (E) 4:18
142lbs. Gene Ulrich (ES) dec. Charles Evans (E) 7-2
150lbs. Rod Chamberlain (E) pinned Mel Riddick (ES)
6:53
158lbs.
Bill Luckenbaugh (ES) pinned Dave Lavanture (E)
1:39
167lbs. Rick Bailey (E) dec. Carl Seitz (ES) 7-1
177lbs. Mike Stambaugh (ES) dec. Bill Marshall (E) 12-6
190lbs. George Ahner (ES) dec. Curt Shober (E) 8-5
Hwt.
Don
Lehman (ES) dec. DeHaven Robinson (E) 3-1
NCAA Official: Jan Dutt
ESSC Head Coach: Clyde H. "Red" Witman
Elizabethtown Head Coach: Dr. D. Kenneth Ober
JV Score: ESSC 15 Elizabethtown 9
(@
East Stroudsburg State College's LeRoy J. Koehler Fieldhouse)
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"LOOKING
BACK at an ESSC/F&M Dual Meet...
with 5 West York wrestlers!"
 WRESTLING
ARCHIVE -11/14/73
The York Dispatch
November 15, 1973
vs.
Former West Yorkers...
Pace East Stroudsburg Over F&M College!
"West Yorker's Luckenbaugh - McCleary Grapple at 158lbs.!"
ESSC 24 F&M 18
@
East Stroudsburg State College's Koehler Fieldhouse 11/14/73.
∙ FIVE
former West York High School grapplers were in action in East Stroudsburg
State's 24-18 victory over Franklin & Marshall College Wednesday night.
Senior Bill
Luckenbaugh gained his third pin in four matches this season and 32nd in his
college career over F&M
freshman Kevin McCleary at the 4:55 mark in the 158lb. class.
∙
Kevin McCleary and Bill Luckenbaugh are both West York (PA) High School products.
Luckenbaugh is now
40-4-1 at ESSC. Sophomore Mike Stambaugh, a former West York
wrestler at 177lbs., upped his career record to 11-2 and remained
undefeated with a 3-1
decision
over F&M's Jeff Windstein for his fourth victory. Bulldog grads
who met defeat
were ESSC freshman Keith Lichty, a 5-4 loss
at 126lbs., and ESSC freshman heavyweight
Don Lehman who lost a 6-3 verdict to F&M's Jim Devenney
in the last match of the night.
∙ Lichty is
0-4 and Lehman is 2-2 for the Warriors this season to-date.
York Dispatch Article Facts
∙
@
East Stroudsburg State College's LeRoy J. Koehler Fieldhouse.
∙
This match was the second ever between the two
schools...
HERE!
∙ ESSC's next match is at Bloomsburg State College on Saturday...
11/17/73
in a quad meet also with
Trenton State (NJ) and Slippery Rock State College.
∙ F&M Head Coach -
Stan Zeamer. ESSC Head Coach - Clyde "Red" Witman.
*More results from the
1973-74 ESSC mat season...@
ESSC Wrestling Archives.
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POCONO RECORD ARCHIVES
SPORTS
vs.
ESSC Warrior Matmen win one;
lose two in quadrangular match!
@ Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, PA
11/17/73 @ BSC Nelson Field House
Pocono Record 11/19/73 ▪▪▪ ESSC senior Bill Luckenbaugh
(158)
and freshman Don Lehman (heavyweight)...
won all three of their wrestling matches
to highlight
East Stroudsburg State College
mat
action in the Bloomsburg quadrangular
wrestling tournament Saturday. The Warriors
defeated Trenton State, NJ, 25-13, but lost
to
Bloomsburg State,
25-16, and to Slippery Rock, 33-11. Luckenbaugh (7-0) scored two
pins
over Bill Pasukinas of Bloomsburg in 3:27 and
George Davenport of Trenton State
in
3:46 to give him five pins for the '73-'74 season and 34 for his dual career. The
ESSC
All-American
also defeated Angelo Natoli of Slippery Rock, a Penn State (PSU) Invitational
Champion last week, for the second time this season, 4-0. Lucky had beaten
Natoli
in the finals of the Coast Guard Invitational, 6-0. Lehman (6-1), only a
freshman
from the same high school (West York High School) as Luckenbaugh, registered one of
the night's
surprises by pinning John Hohman of Bloomsburg State, a Coast Guard
190lb. Invitational Champion, in 4:30. The Warriors' heavyweight also
decisioned
previously undefeated and a National Junior Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion ('73),
Mike Dumin of Trenton
State, 3-2 on riding time... and Frank Kuhl of Slippery Rock,
9-1. Gary Kessel (134) and Gene Ulrich
(142) each won one match and tied one
for ESSC, who (ESSC) is now 4-3 on the season. Kessel (3-3), a freshman,
demolished
Rich Hicks of Trenton State, who had beaten Kessel in last season's New Jersey
State
High School
Regional Tourney, 12-2. ESSC's Eugene Ulrich (2-4) gained a tie (draw) with
Chris Messina of Slippery Rock at 142lbs.
Pocono Record Sports
*note: East Stroudsburg & Bloomsburg
State - now Universities. Trenton State now TCNJ.
11/19/74 POCONO SPORTS
11/17/73 @ Bloomsburg Quad
Wrestling Meet
(Nelson Fieldhouse)
ESSC 25
Trenton State, NJ 13
118lbs. Billy Cuff (ESSC) dec. Dave Rule (TS) 9-8
126lbs. John Craddox
(TS) dec. Keith Lichty (ESSC) 8-1
134lbs. Gary Kessel (ESSC) dec. Rich Hicks (TS) 12-2
142lbs. Gene Ulrich (ESSC) dec. Alex Betlea (TS) 10-1
150lbs. Dale Oliver (TS) dec. Melvin Riddick (ESSC) 10-7
158lbs. Bill Luckenbaugh (ESSC) pinned George Davenport (TS)
3:46
167lbs. Bill Hayes (TS) dec. Carl Seitz (ESSC) 14-4
177lbs. Mike Stambaugh (ESSC) pinned Frank MacGuire (TS) 2:14
190lbs. Glenn Carson (TS) dec. Fred Swanson (ESSC) 9-1
Hwt.
Don Lehman (ESSC)
dec. Mike Dumin (TS)
3-2
▪
(ESSC Coach - Clyde "Red" Witman
Trenton Coach - Dave Icenhower)
11/17/73 @ Bloomsburg Quad
Wrestling Meet
(Nelson Fieldhouse)
Bloomsburg
State 25 ESSC 16
118lbs. Tom Fink (B) dec. Billy Cuff
(ESSC) 11-0
126lbs. Keith Lichty (ESSC) drew with Gary Scarano (B) 5-5
134lbs. Gary Kessel (ESSC) drew with Dave Brandt (B) 5-5
142lbs. Randy Watts (B) dec. Gene Ulrich (ESSC) 8-0
150lbs. Chuck Carter (B) dec. Melvin Riddick (ESSC) 9-3
158lbs. Bill Luckenbaugh (ESSC) pinned Bill Pasukinas (B)
3:27
167lbs. Dan Burkholder (B) dec. Carl Seitz (ESSC)
12-0
177lbs.
Floyd "Shorty" Hitchcock
(B) dec. Mike Stambaugh (ESSC) 14-2
190lbs. Ron Sheehan (B) dec. Fred Swanson (ESSC) 10-4
Hwt.
Don Lehman
(ESSC)
pinned John Hohman
(B)
4:30
▪
(ESSC Coach - Clyde "Red" Witman
Bloomsburg Coach - Roger Sanders)
11/17/73 @ Bloomsburg Quad
Wrestling Meet
(Nelson Fieldhouse)
Slippery Rock State 33 ESSC 11
118lbs.
Jack Spates (SR) pinned Billy Cuff
(ESSC) 5:50
126lbs. Rick Thompson
(SR) pinned Keith Lichty
(ESSC) 2:10
134lbs. Jeff Condon
(SR) dec. Gary Kessel
(ESSC) 13-2
142lbs. Gene Ulrich
(ESSC) drew with Chris Messina
(SR) 4-4
150lbs. Mike Waller
(SR) pinned Melvin Riddick
(ESSC) 5:44
158lbs. Bill Luckenbaugh
(ESSC) dec. Angelo Natoli
(SR) 4-0
167lbs. Rich Peifer
(SR) pinned Carl Seitz
(ESSC) 4:57
177lbs. Bill Shuffstall
(SR) dec. Mike Stambaugh
(ESSC) 9-4
190lbs. Fred Swanson
(ESSC) dec. Carl Messina
(SR) 2-1
Hwt.
Don Lehman
(ESSC) dec. Frank
Kuhl
(SR) 9-1
▪
(ESSC Coach - Clyde "Red" Witman
Slippery Rock Coach - Fred Powell)
▪ West York, PA HS Alumni
(above) - Keith Lichty '73, Bill
Luckenbaugh '69,
Mike Stambaugh '72 & Don Lehman '73.
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The York Daily Record
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December 15, 1973
Dual Meet @ LHSC Thomas Fieldhouse
Ex-West York Bulldog Wrestlers Star
Against... Lock
Haven State College!
YORK DAILY RECORD 12/17/73: A quartet of former West York High School wrestlers
led
East
Stroudsburg
to a 29-20 victory
over Lock Haven State College in a Pennsylvania
State Conference dual meet Saturday at
Lock Haven.
It was the first victory for ESSC over
Lock Haven in seven years as the Warriors pushed their
dual meet record for the year to 5-3.
Stealing the spotlight from his upper class teammates was freshman Keith
Lichty. The youngster
was credited with the key
victory in the match when he pinned defending PA State Conference
champion,
Rob Johnson, in 3:14 of their 126 pound match. It was only the second
victory of the
season for Lichty who is now 2-5-1.
Bill Luckenbaugh, the former PIAA State Champion
who
earned All-American honors last year,
gained his 8th victory of the
season with a pin over
Don Eichenlaub in 4:27 of their 158 pound
class. Eichenlaub, like Johnson, is the defending
PA Conference wrestling champion. The victory boosted Luckenbaugh's brilliant college record to
44 victories, including 39 pins,
four losses, and one tie. Luckenbaugh, highly regarded as a
candidate for NCAA
honors, was injured
in a first round match of last year's
PA Conference
championship tournament
and was forced to retire the rest of the season. Also winning
Saturday
for East Stroudsburg was Mike Stambaugh, a former
West Yorker and now a
sophomore, who scored with a 9-8 triumph over Ron
McMurray in the 177 pound class.
Freshman Don Lehman, the
fourth Bulldog
member of the Warriors squad, gained a tie with
Lock Haven's Jim Schuster... at 6-6
in the heavyweight class to close out the ESSC win.
▪
@ Lock Haven State College's Thomas Fieldhouse
- Lock Haven PA 17745 (12/15/73)
▪
LHSC Coach - Dr. Kenneth Cox. ESSC
Coach - Clyde H. "Red" Witman.
YDR Sports - 12/17/73
LHSC's HWT. Jim Schuster
▪
Bill Luckenbaugh is now 8-0 on the ESSC 1973-74 season.
▪
Mike Stambaugh is now 6-2 on the season and Don Lehman is 5-2-1 @ ESSC.
▪
Keith Lichty is 2-5-1 on the 1973-74 season @ ESSC.
▪
12/17/73 ESSC/LHSC match
@ Lock Haven State College.
▪ West York, PA HS Alumni
(above) - Keith Lichty '73, Bill
Luckenbaugh '69,
Mike Stambaugh '72 & Don Lehman '73.
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
January 21, 1974
ESSC vs. Kutztown State
▪ Yorkers Outstanding!
Former Bulldogs Wrestlers Gain College Match Triumphs
Four
ex-West York grapplers were victorious in their individual dual matches to
pace
East Stroudsburg State to an easy 35-6 wrestling win over Kutztown
State
Wednesday night.
Two of the local quartet pinned their opponents, with senior Bill
Luckenbaugh, 11-0 on the season,
unbeaten in 37 consecutive dual meets) taking the 150-pound class and Don
Lehman, ESSC's
heavyweight, earning the other fall to bring his freshman season mark to
7-2-2.
The other West Yorker's captured decisions, as 177-pounder Mike
Stambaugh upped his sophomore
record to 9-2 and Keith Lichty (126 pounds) evened his at freshman
mark at 5-5-1.
▪
East Stroudsburg State has taken five bouts in a row, and is now 8-3
overall.
@
1/16/74 ESSC's Koehler Fieldhouse
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The York Daily Record
ARCHIVES
January 28, 1974
ESSC vs. West Chester State
College
Local Wrestlers Shine!
ESSC
18 West Chester 17
WRESTLING
ESSC's Don Lehman
∙ York Daily Record 1/28/74:
Don Lehman registered a
2-1 decision over Bob Eshleman
Saturday night
in the heavyweight
division to rally the East Stroudsburg
State College
wrestlers to an exciting 18-17 dual meet victory
over West
Chester. Lehman (9-2-1)...
who lost to
Solanco High School's Eshleman 3-2 in the '73 PA District III semi's last year,
avenged his
last high school loss. Lehman is one of four West York athletes
performing
for East Stroudsburg
State,
which improved
its record to 9-3. Undefeated Bill Luckenbaugh
scored
his sixth straight fall at 150 pounds over Ralph Reish for a 12-0
season record. He
has pinned 10 of 12 opponents. Mike Stambaugh (10-2) gained
a 10-2 decision over Eric
Swanson at 177
pounds and
126-pounder Keith Lichty (5-6-1)
bowed to West Chester's
John Gallagher... with a close 3-2 decision.
@ West Chester State College - West Chester, PA
▪
West Chester Head Coach
- Milt Collier ESSC Head Coach - Clyde H. Witman
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
East Stroudsburg
State
will host Wilkes College...
Thursday night, in its next action.
▪
The PA State Conference wrestling tourney is set for Feb. 22-23, 1974
at Slippery Rock State College and...
the
NCAA Division II wrestling tourney is in Orange County, California.
(Cal-State Fullerton) March 1-2, 1974.
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
February 18, 1974
ESSC
vs. Wilkes College
East Stroudsburg Falls...23-16
West Yorker's Win Two, Lose Two Against Wilkes
York Dispatch: The 9th and
10th ranked NCAA Division II college wrestling teams in the East
collided
Thursday night at East Stroudsburg and Wilkes College proved
its higher ranking
by knocking off the Warriors 23-16.
Four former West York grapplers performed for the losers.
Keith
Lichty, a freshman performing in the 126-pound
class scored perhaps his biggest win of the year
when he pinned Lon
Balum in 6:29. Balum had entered the match with a 13-2 mark. Lichty
is now 6-6-1.
At 150, undefeated
Bill Luckenbaugh ran his record to 13-0 with a lopsided 17-3 decision
over Wilkes' Mike Lee.
The other ex-bulldogs,
Mike Stambaugh and Don Lehman would just as soon forget
their bouts.
Stambaugh was pinned by Jim
Weisenfluh in the 177-pound class
while Lehman, who tips the scale at 198
pounds, was forced to take on
265-pound Al Scharer in the
heavyweight match and dropped a 6-1 decision.
@ ESSC's Koehler Fieldhouse
▪ Wilkes Coach - John
Reese ESSC Coach - Clyde Witman
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
February 21, 1974
York Matmen at East Stroudsburg
Await State Conference Finals
Bill Luckenbaugh Closing Career!
Four former West York High School wrestlers will be wearing the
colors of East Stroudsburg
State College Friday and Saturday during the 31st annual Pennsylvania
Conference Wrestling
Conference Championships at Slippery Rock State College's campus.
Bill Luckenbaugh has the most impressive record going
into the tourney, as the 150lb.
performer has just completed his second straight undefeated dual match
season with a
15-0 dual record including 12 pins. The other West Yorkers are
Keith Lichty (126lbs.),
Mike Stambaugh (177lbs.) and Don Lehman (190lbs. or
Heavyweight).
Lichty earned a 7-7-1 dual meet record on the season, winning six of
his last eight
matches with five pins. Stambaugh scored a 10-5 dual
meet record on the season
and freshman Lehman had some big wins early in the season at heavyweight
and
finished with an 8-5-2 dual meet record.
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The Stroud Courier
ARCHIVES
March 1, 1974
Luckenbaugh, Stetler Win PC Titles
by John Aigeldinger
1974 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
College Wrestling Championships
March 1, 1974 -
Bill Luckenbaugh and Bob Stetler, two of the Warriors best
grapplers joined the ranks of
some of the greatest college wrestlers in the history of the sport by
becoming Pennsylvania Conference
wrestling champs last Saturday night. Luckenbaugh is a former PIAA
champion and a West York (PA) grad.
"Lucky" took the 150 pound title in the 31st annual conference
championship with a 5-4 victory over Mike
Waller of Slippery Rock. Stetler, a junior, was the 158 pound
winner beating Angelo Natoli of Slippery
Rock, 2-0. Both wrestlers were sporting 15-0 regular season records
going into the PSAC finals.
The Warriors had two other place winners in Don Lehman, third at 190
pounds and Phil Conlin, fourth at
142lbs. Both are freshman. Lehman is a West York (PA) graduate
and Conlin graduated from Warwick (PA).
ESSC placed fourth among the 13 conference schools, a vast
improvement over last year's twelfth place
showing. Luckenbaugh won his first PC title after being
frustrated in two previous attempts. He was
second to national champion Stan Dziedzic of Slippery Rock in 1971 and he
was injured and forced to
default last year. However Lucky was not to be denied his title
this year as he pinned Bill Davis of
Clarion in 1:42 of the semi-finals and came back in the finals, building up
close to three minutes of
riding time for the difference in his win over Waller. Stetler
edged Don Eichenlaub, the 150 pound
champion in 1973, 5-3, on a takedown with 30 seconds remaining. He
controlled his final round
match much more than the score indicated. He rode Natoli the entire
second period and escaped early
in the third and forced the action the rest of the way. Stetler is a former
East Stroudsburg Open winner.
Luckenbaugh, Stetler and Lehman will compete in the NCAA Division Two
Wrestling Championships
Friday and Saturday at Cal State University - Fullerton, in Orange County, California.
GOING
TO CALIFORNIA!
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The York Daily Record
ARCHIVES
February 25, 1974
LUCKENBAUGH TRIUMPHS!
1974 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
College Wrestling Championships
February 23, 1974 -
West York's
Bill Luckenbaugh, the top-seeded entry
from
East Stroudsburg
State College, captured the 150lb. crown of the Pennsylvania State
College
Wrestling Conference
championships held Saturday
on the Slippery Rock State wrestling mats.
Luckenbaugh is a senior and the ESSC captain. Luckenbaugh, who upped his season's record to
22-0, nipped Mike Waller of
Slippery Rock with a 5-4 decision in the finals. He had pinned Bill
Davis
of Clarion in 1:42 in the semi-finals Saturday, and he also had a 3:16 fall at
the expense
of
Rich Schumacher of Indiana, Pa. Bob
Stetler of ESSC also won the PSAC 158lb title.
East Stroudsburg finished fourth in the meet with 68 points. Clarion won the
team laurels for
the
fourth straight season with 156 1/2 points, followed by
Slippery Rock State, 129 1/2,
and
Bloomsburg State, 80. Lock Haven was fifth in the 13-team field with 60 1/2 points.
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Another West Yorker, Don Lehman (ESSC), was third in the 190lb division, defeating
Tom
Schweinburg of Indiana, 12-2 in the consolation finals. Lehman (4-1) had
bowed to
Bill Shuffstall of Slippery Rock, 6-1, in the championship 190lb. semi-final
round.
Shuffstall won the PSAC championship at 190lbs defeating Jim Zoschg (MI),
7-1.
▪ Two other former West York Bulldogs who competed for East
Stroudsburg State
were Mike
Stambaugh, (0-2) at 177lbs., and 126-pounder
Keith Lichty, who finished
with
a (2-2) mark. Both ESSC wrestlers did not place in the tournament.
▪ Luckenbaugh, Stetler and Lehman are slated to
travel and
compete in the NCAA Division II tourney Friday and Saturday
at the Cal-State Fullerton Gym,
Orange County, California.
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
1974 NCAA DII Championship Wrestling Results - 3/1-2, 1974.
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
February 25, 1974
Herr, Luckenbaugh...
State Mat Champions
▪
Tom Herr and Bill Luckenbaugh are
one step closer to national wrestling championships.
Both York grappling products leaped into the spotlight Saturday with
victories in the
Pennsylvania Conference Championships at Slippery Rock State College.
Herr, defending NAIA
national titlist, copped the heavyweight crown for Edinboro with an 8-4
victory in the finals
over Clarion's Chuck Coryea while East Stroudsburg's Luckenbaugh
nipped Slippery Rock's
Mike Waller, 5-4, for 150-pound laurels. Herr, a York
Suburban product picked a good time
to score his first career victory over Coryea after suffering four
straight setbacks at the
hands of the Clarion ace. Herr, who won all five matches in the
two-day championships,
finished the season with a 26-3 mark and will defend his national title at
River Falls, Wisconsin
March 7, 8, and 9. Luckenbaugh, a former West York
standout, scored a pair of pins in
earlier matches enroute to the victory in the finals. He also went
unbeaten through the
tourney and finished the state campaign with a perfect 18-0 slate.
Luckenbaugh now
advances to the NCAA Division II championships at California
State-Fullerton March 1 and 2.
▪
Three other West Yorkers participated in the meet for East
Stroudsburg with 190-pounder
Don Lehman taking third in his weight class, while
Keith Lichty
(126) and Mike Stambaugh
failed to place. Lehman soundly defeated Tom Schweinburg
of Indiana (Pa.) 12-2, in the
consolation finals. Lichty won two of his four matches but did
not place and Stambaugh
lost both of his matches. East Stroudsburg finished fourth in
the team standings, with
Clarion State placing first, followed by Slippery Rock and
Bloomsburg. Wade Schalles of
Clarion, who won the event's outstanding wrestler award, pinned
Floyd Hitchcock of
Bloomsburg in 4:28 in the 177-pound class. Schalles is a
two-time national champion and
Hitchcock was a sliver medalist for the United States in last
summer's World University
Games in Moscow. Both were undefeated during the regular
season. Three wrestlers
finished the tournament with unblemished season records. Clarions'
Schalles is 38-0-1,
Jack Spates of Slippery Rock is 29-0 and
Bill Luckenbaugh
of East Stroudsburg is 18-0.
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NCAA College Wrestling
PSAC Championships 1974
∙1974 PSAC Wrestling Tourney
Conference Tournament Champions
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
Front (L-R) Jack Spates -118lbs. (Slippery Rock), Craig
Turnbull -126lbs. (Clarion),
Randy Watts -134lbs. (Bloomsburg), Don Rohn -142lbs. (Clarion) &
Bill Luckenbaugh -150lbs. (East Stroudsburg).
Back (L-R) Tom Herr -Hwt. (Edinboro), Bill Shuffstall -190lbs. (Slippery Rock),
Wade
Schalles -177lbs. (Clarion), Bill "Bimbo" Simpson -167lbs. (Clarion) &
Robert Stetler -158lbs. (East Stroudsburg).
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1974 PSAC Wrestling Championship
PSAC Podium Medalists...
@ Slippery Rock State College
(PSAC '74 weight class - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th place medalists)
▪ 118lbs. Jack Spates SR Pete
Morelli CL Tom DeLong IUP Tom Fink BL Dave Whare
MI Willis Divel SH
▪ 126lbs. Craig Turnbull CL Rick Thompson SR Jeff Gallagher WC Lon Edmonds BL
Keith Kosky IUP Jim Bailey MA
▪ 134lbs. Randy Watts BL Jack Davis CL Jeff Condon SR Steve Powell WC Gary
Walk LH Geno Zuccaro CAL
▪ 142lbs. Don Rohn CL Gene Costello
SR Paul Gillespie WC
Phil Conlin ES George
Way LH Jim Sykes IUP
▪
150lbs. B. Luckenbaugh ES
Mike Waller SR Dave
Crowell LH Bill Davis CL Tom Hutchinson IUP Ralph
Reish WC
▪
158lbs. B. Stetler ES Angelo Natoli SR Don
Eichenlaub LH Bob Warnick CAL Chris Clark CL Steve
Maxwell WC
▪ 167lbs. Bill Simpson
CL Ron Sheehan BL Larry McCoy IUP Joe Jacquelin MI Ron Peifer SR
Ralph Pivirotto ED
▪ 177lbs. *Wade Schalles
CL Floyd Hitchcock BL Eric Guyll MI Ray Watkins
ED Al Fricke LH Eric Swanson WC
▪
190lbs. B. Shuffstall SR Jim Zoschg
MI Don Lehman ES
Tom Schweinburg IUP John Hohman BL Chris Cole CL
▪
Hwt. Tom Herr ED Chuck Coryea
CL Jim Schuster LH Dave Schley MI Bob Eshleman WC George Schenck K
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
* Most
Outstanding Wrestler - Wade Schalles 177lbs. (Clarion)
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
1974 PSAC
Team Points: 1st - Clarion (CL), 2nd - Slippery Rock
(SR), 3rd -Bloomsburg (BL),
4th - E. Stroudsburg (ES), 5th - Lock Haven (LH), 6th - Millersville (MI),
7th - West Chester (WC),
8th - Edinboro (ED),
9th - Indiana University of PA (IUP), 10th - California University of PA (CAL),
11th -
Shippensburg (SH), 12th -Mansfield (MA), 13th - Kutztown (K).
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EAST STROUDSBURG
STATE COLLEGE
WRESTLING
1973-74
 1974 - NCAA DII Wrestling
Championships
East Stroudsburg State College - 7th Place (39 1/2pts)
@
▪
Cal-State Fullerton University
- NCAA DII Championship's.
(Back) ESSC Head Wrestling Coach - - Clyde H. "Red" Witman.
(Front) ESSC's Bill Luckenbaugh (150lbs.),
Don Lehman (190lbs.)
and Bob Stetler
(158lbs.).
THE
POCONO RECORD
March - 1974
▪ LUCKY & LEHMAN @
'74 NCAA's
East Stroudsburg State
College '74 NCAA DII
Entries:
Bill Luckenbaugh (150), Bob Stetler (158), Don Lehman (190).
(Location - Cal-State @ Fullerton University,
Orange County, California)
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
March 05, 1974
Yorkers Lehman, Luckenbaugh
Resuming Mat Tourney Action
NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa -
Newly-crowned Pennsylvania
Conference wrestling champions Bill Luckenbaugh (150)
and Bob Stetler (158) will compete in the NCAA Division Two
Wrestling Championships Friday and Saturday
in Fullerton, California. Don Lehman (190), a third place
conference finisher, also will be entered in the NCAA
tourney. Lehman and Luckenbaugh are graduates of West York High
School. Luckenbaugh should be one
of the favorites at 150 pounds based on his 22-0 season record which
includes 16 pins. Stetler is 10-1
with five pins while Lehman is 15-7-2 with three pins. "All
three have the capabilities to do well, but then
a lot of wrestlers have the capabilities." said Coach Clyde 'Red' Witman.
"Now is when experience, desire
and determination come into play." This will be Luckenbaugh's
second NCAA tournament. As a sophomore
in 1971, he wrestled in the NCAA College Division Tournament in Fargo, S.D.,
winning his first two matches
on pins before losing to Tom Minkel of Central Michigan, 5-4.
Luckenbaugh gained revenge for that loss
the following year by beating Minkel, 11-1, in the finals of the APO East
Stroudsburg Open Tournament.
The senior sat out the 1971-72 season and was injured and unable to compete
at last year's tourney.
"Bill is one of the best pinners I've ever seen anywhere. We
obviously consider him one of the top
wrestlers in the nation and we're counting on his performance in the NCAA
tournament to prove this,"
Witman stated. Stetler just became eligible to compete
for East Stroudsburg at the start of the 2nd
semester. The junior from Stroudsburg is a transfer from Huron, S.D.
College where he wrestled for
two years. Lehman is a freshman. He competed at
heavyweight during most of the dual-meet
season, but dropped down to 190 pounds for the Pennsylvania
Conference Championships last week.
East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg are the only Pennsylvania Conference schools
which will compete
in the Division Two tournament. The top two finishers in each weight
class will qualify for the NCAA
Division One Wrestling Championships March 14-16 at Iowa State University.
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The Stroud Courier
ARCHIVES
VOL. LXII No. 19
East Stroudsburg State College, East Stroudsburg, PA
March 8, 1974
Lucky Gets Crown And Trophy
▪
Senior wrestler Bill Luckenbaugh
proved his grappling powers again this weekend breezing through the NCAA
College
Division II wrestling championships at Fullerton, California. Lucky,
top seeded at 150 pounds, pinned Roger Warner
of Cal Poly San Louis Obispo in 3:35 of the final round match. This
was his fourth pin in five tournament matches
and it enabled him to win a trophy for the most pins. He also was
second to Bloomsburg's Floyd Hitchcock in the
outstanding wrestler balloting.
Bob Stetler, another "Warrior Wonder,"
took third in the 158 pound class winning
four consolation matches. His biggest win came in a 9-2 thrashing of
Mike Turnbull of the University of Akron,
who earlier had eliminated him from the championship competition.
Turnbull decisioned Stetler 5-4 when his
trick knee went out on him. Coach "Red" Witman felt that if it
had not been for the injury he could have
conceivably gone on to win the title. Don Lehman, only a
freshman at 190 pounds, won one match in the
championship round,
defeating a Northern Iowa grappler 3-2, and then
fell to Mankato State's Kurt Kuehl
by fall (4:56) in the quarterfinal match. Lehman won one consolation match on
Saturday before losing to Kuehl
for a second time. With only Lucky, Stetler and Lehman competing,
the trio managed to score high enough
for seventh place out of forty colleges. Winning the final
round enabled Lucky to go on to the NCAA Division I
championships March 14-16 at Iowa State. ESSC's only other NCAA
champion was Rich Schumacher, who
won the heavyweight college division title in 1970.
1974 NCAA DII's
1974 NCAA DII Championship Wrestling Results - 3/1-2, 1974
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The York Dispatch
ARCHIVES
March 11, 1974
"Lucky" Advances to...
NCAA Division I Wrestling
Tournament!!
▪
Undefeated Bill Luckenbaugh will represent
East
Stroudsburg in the NCAA Division One Wrestling Championships
beginning Thursday, March 14 at Iowa State University. Luckenbaugh is
expected to be seeded high in the 150lb. class
based on his 27-0 record and 20 pins. The senior from West York, PA
won the NCAA Division II title, pinning four
of his five opponents. He pinned Roger Warner of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
@ 3:35 of the finals. "Lucky" also won
individual honors in the Coast Guard Invitational and the Pennsylvania
Conference Championships. He was 15-0 in dual
matches with 12 pins. Among his victims this year were Mike Waller of
Slippery Rock, a 3rd team All-American
and Mike Lee of Wilkes, the NCAA Division Three Champion. Coach Clyde
"Red" Witman is hoping Lucky will get a
second or third seed in the 36-man field to defending champion Jarrett Hubbard
of Michigan, who is also undefeated.
"Bill is good enough to win the national title, but so are six-seven other
wrestlers. Remember, every wrestler entered
has had to qualify by winning either a league, regional, or national
tournament," indicated Witman. "I'd say Bill's
chances are better than most because he is a pinner.
Sometimes a pinner can deck people who may prove better than
they are if the match comes down to a decision." the coach added. Witman is in
his 12th season as ESSC head coach.
This will be Luckenbaugh's first appearance in the NCAA Division One
Tournament, formerly called the University Division.
Lucky didn't qualify as a sophomore and last year he was injured and unable to
enter NCAA competition. The Warriors
just missed having a second national qualifier as junior Bob Stetler
placed third
in the NCAA Division II Championships
at 158lbs., where only the finalists qualified. Stetler won five matches
and only lost one. He was defeated by Mike
Turnbull of Akron in the second round when he suffered a knee injury. He
came back to trounce Turnbull in the
consolation finals. Don Lehman, an ESSC freshman, also competed in
the NCAA Division II tournament at 190lbs.
Lehman scored two victories, losing in the quarterfinals of the championship
event. Lehman narrowly missed placing
for All-American status, winning a 6-5 decision over Seattle's Rich Maras and
then losing to Minnesota State's
(Mankato) All-American Kurt Kuehl, 9-6, in his last consolation bout.
▪
The
1974 NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship
Tournament
was
held at California State University at Fullerton in Orange County, California.
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▪
ESSC Coach, Clyde "Red'
Witman, presents the 1974 NCAA DII Outstanding Wrestler
Award
to Bloomsburg's 177lb wrestler Floyd "Shorty" Hitchcock.
Coach Clyde Witman is
president of the NCAA DII Coaches Association.
1974 NCAA Division II National Champions
March 1-2, 1974
Cal State-Fullerton,
CA
1974 NCAA DII Championship Wrestling Results - 3/1-2, 1974
▪
1974 NCAA Division II National Champions
118lbs. - Terrence Perdew (Old Dominion)
126lbs. - Tom Garcia (Northern Iowa)
134lbs. - Jim Miller (Northern Iowa)
142lbs. - Ken Snyder (Northern Iowa)
150lbs. - Bill Luckenbaugh (East Stroudsburg)
158lbs. - Cliff Hatch (Cal Poly SLO)
167lbs. - Ron Sheehan (Bloomsburg)
177lbs. - Floyd Hitchcock (Bloomsburg)*
190lbs. - Keith Leland (Cal Poly SLO)
Unl. - Jim Woods (Western Illinois)
▪
Team Champion - Cal Poly SLO (131.5 pts)
*
Outstanding Wrestler - Floyd "Shorty"
Hitchcock (Bloomsburg)
∙
NCAA Division II Wrestling Full Champions List History
∙
NWCA NCAA DII Wrestling Hall of Fame
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•
Bill Luckenbaugh
of East Stroudsburg State College...
was the "2nd seed" at the 1974 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Iowa
City @ 150lbs.
Bill won his first 2 matches by fall, but a untimely knee injury suffered at
practice
the prior week hindered his progress in what would have been, a sure
All-American medal.
Bill won the NCAA DII wrestling crown the week before to qualify for the DI
tournament in Iowa City.
1974 Division I Wrestling Championships
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Luckenbaugh Ousted!
Bill Luckenbaugh of East Stroudsburg failed to place in the top five after
being
seeded second in the 150-pound class on the basis of a 27-0 regular season
mark.
The former PIAA champ from West York, ironically lost to two men he had
previously
beaten, Mike Waller of Slippery Rock and Roger Warner of California Poly,
San Luis Obispo.
Luckenbaugh, who sustained a slight knee injury during a pre-tournament
workout, started
off in fine fashion by pinning Dennis Trainor of Washington State in 2:52
and coming
right back to nail Navy's John Althans in 3:44. He then ran into
Waller and was whipped 11-0.
Luckenbaugh decisioned Waller 5-4 for the Pennsylvania Conference
Championship.
Following a 5-0 overtime decision over Larry Johnson of Northern Illinois,
the East
Stroudsburg senior was dumped 14-2 by Warner, a man he pinned for the NCAA
Division
II title a week earlier. (NCAA Division I Tourney - Ames, Iowa)
NCAA
1974 Brackets
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ESSC 1973-74
DUAL MEET WRESTLING STATISTICS
Bill Cuff (118lbs.)
3-5 with 0 pins
Keith Lichty (126lbs.) 7-7-1 with 5 pins
Gary Kessel (134lbs.) 8-6-1 with 1 pin
Phil Conlin (142lbs.) 3-2 with 2 pins
Gene Ulrich (142lbs.) 6-5-1 with 1 pin
▪Bill Luckenbaugh (150lbs.) 15-0 with 12 pins
- ESSC Wrestler of Year
Mel Riddick (158lbs.) 0-7 with 0 pins
Bob Stetler (158lbs.) 7-1 with 5 pins
Carl Seitz (167lbs.) 2-5-1 with 0 pins
Mike Stambaugh (177lbs.) 10-5 with 2 pins
Don Lehman (Hwt./190lbs.) 8-5-2 with 2 pins
Fred Swanson (190lbs./Hwt.) 6-8 with 1 pin
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▪ 1973-74 ESSC Team record
(9-6)
PSAC Tourney Team (4th)
NCAA DII
Tourney Team
(7th)
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1973-74 ESSC Captain
Senior Bill
Luckenbaugh...
▪
1969-74 - Bill Luckenbaugh Match
by Match Results!
ESSC Open, Coast Guard Invit., PSAC & NCAA DII Champion!
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
ESSC 1973-74 Wrestling Season...
Four West York High School Wrestlers
earned Varsity Letters...
Keith Lichty,
Bill Luckenbaugh,
Mike Stambaugh, Don Lehman.
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Some
"Lucky" Fishing!!
(L-R)
West York Alumni -
Bill
Luckenbaugh
& son Chad Luckenbaugh in Florida.
▪
2015 photo courtesy of Chad
Luckenbaugh
Bill Luckenbaugh's
West York
&
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